Tanja Dickenscheid

Tanja Roswitha Dickenscheid ( born June 17, 1969 in Mainz) is a former German hockey player and three -time Olympian.

Tanja Dickenscheid first played for the Sports Association 1910 Gau- Algesheim, then from 1985 for the Rüsselsheim RK, with whom she 1990 in Halle won her first national title, which until 2002 was followed by five more tracks. In field hockey 1993, 1995, 1997 and 2001 won the Rüsselsheim inside 1992 the title. 2004 returned the midfielder after a pause again back in the team and also won their sixth championship in the open air.

1989 debuted Tanja Dickenscheid in the German national hockey team. In their first major tournament, the Champions Trophy in 1989, they finished in third place. In early 1990, she won with the German team the title at the European Indoor Championships. In the 1990 World Cup in Sydney, the German team came in eighth place. 1991 in field hockey championship, the German team won the silver medal after a final defeat against England. The following year, the Spanish hosts were the winners at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Tanja Dickenscheid received after the 2-1 defeat in the final of the Silver Medal. 1993 belonged Tanja Dickenscheid for the second time the German winning team at a European Indoor Championship. At the World Championships in 1994 in Dublin, the team finished fourth. After a bronze medal at the Field Hockey Championship 1995, the German team at the Champions Trophy in 1995 experienced as at the World Championships last year in fourth place. In its second part in the Olympics in Atlanta in 1996 she finished with the German team to sixth place. Successful the German team was at the 1998 World Cup in Utrecht, when the team won the bronze medal. After the seventh spot in the Olympic Games in Sydney Tanja Dickenscheid ended her international career.

Overall, Tanja Dickenscheid worked from 1989 to 2000 in 189 international matches with, of which 10 in the hall.